Tabula rasa is NSsoft only fail, all there other games are very successful, Tubala rasas fail was Richard garriots fault more than NCsofts.

Auto Assault?

Hmm yeah, forgot about that game...I always get it confused with eXsteel, lol.
But meh, still does not change the fact that the rest of their games are doing well...whats the poing in waisitng money in a failing game, its a business after all.

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Auto Assault was a very ambitious, generally well polished game that had the misfortune of being too different from the other MMOs on the market (more so than GW,) along with a rather steep learning curve that kept it from developing a large enough niche.

As far as GW looking like every other NCSoft MMO, it's likely because GW got it righ. Of the games that came out at around the same time or before GW, Lineage was too wierd and asian to be a hit in the western markets, and CoH was too western to resonate /w the asians. GW was the first to strike a winning balance, and the rest are following suit.

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The fact remains those games had a limited audience to begin with, no real backing by the company, they were made, and then left. Buggy at launch, performance issues and other things combined led to their demise, you cannot create a game with a limited audience and then do those things to the limited player base.

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"Located in Bellevue, Washington, ArenaNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea-based NCsoft Corporation."

Need a definition of subsidiary?

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/subsidiary

There you go.

Other subsidiaries of NCSoft here in the states?

Paragon Studios

Carbine Studios

Hope that clears up some of the confusion. If not, then research a bit more and I hope things become clear to you.

All that shows is they are published by NCSoft, sorry to burst your bubble of fun!

Using your own link for reference:

The parent and subsidiary remain separate legal entities, and the obligations of one are separate from those of the other. Nevertheless, if a subsidiary becomes financially insecure, the parent corporation is often sued by creditors. In some instances courts will hold the parent corporation liable, but generally the separation of corporate identities immunizes the parent corporation from financial responsibility for the subsidiary's liabilities.

And in the gaming industry, words do have different meanings. I would know, I am studying the industry in college.

Uh, what bubble was there to burst? I just listed what their relationship with each other was. I didn't try to claim anything. People seamed confused on their relation, I posted direct links that explained it.

Furthermore, what does your studying the industry in college have anything to do with anything? I hope your not going to ITT for that. I graduated from there with a bachelors degree in digital entertainment and game design and for the most part was a complete waste of time other than being a minor introduction to a few things. Don't take that as horrible, though. You get what you put into it, so it just means you have to teach yourself a lot. ITT, Devry, Full Sail, Art Institute are all about the same in regard to game courses. Hope wherever you are at you get what you want out of it.

That said, your in college so you should be able to interpret what you read. People were posting a lot of different things without anything to back up what they were saying. All I did was provide a few references to explain in more detail. There were no "bubbles of fun" in what I posted, thus nothing for you to pop.